Tag Archives: June 17 2013 issue

It started out as the kind of whistleblower case plaintiffs’ lawyers dream about. Two pharmaceutical salesmen who were about to blow the lid off widespread corruption at British-based GlaxoSmithKline hired a small Colorado law firm to represent them on a ...

It’s been just a few weeks since two female professors went public with allegations of sexual and racial discrimination by their employer, Roger Williams University, but the dispute is already proving to be a thorny one.

A Central Falls woman has been awarded $1.3 million in a slip and fall case against Hasbro Children’s Hospital. Providence attorney Ronald J. Resmini said his client Fatima Delacruz was permanently disabled when she fell and fractured her kneecap outside ...

A veteran Warwick attorney who formerly served as general counsel to the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education has been nominated to the Family Court bench. Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee on June 6 announced his nomination of Sandra ...

The alleged ringleader of a scheme to bilk the Navy out of $20 million in federal contracts over the past decade is seeking to replace his legal counsel, according to The Providence Journal. Ralph M. Mariano on June 11 filed ...

Two men have been arrested and charged with witness tampering during an investigation into the deaths of 12 people who had used a new kind of synthetic opiate, according to papers filed in U.S. District Court in Providence. Victor Burgos, ...

A Providence Municipal Court judge has been tapped to fill a magistrate vacancy on the Rhode Island Traffic Tribunal. The position carries a 10-year term. Joseph A. Abbate, a judge since 2002, was among six finalists chosen on April 29 ...

In a ruling that boosts the authority of arbitrators to interpret crucial contract provisions, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an arbitrator’s decision to allow a plaintiff to bring a class-wide arbitration proceeding when the parties did not expressly agree to ...